nürnberg laws

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(1935) Two measures designed by Adolf Hitler and approved by a Nazi Party convention at Nürnberg, Ger. , on Sept. 15, 1935. The laws deprived Jews of German citizenship and forbade marriage or sexual relations between Jews and "citizens of German or cognate blood." Supplementary decrees defined a Jew as a person with at least one Jewish grandparent and declared that Jews could not vote or hold public office